Yet Another 30 Princesses

Thirty more princesses, this time with an insect/small creature theme.

1- Princess of Centipedes

This princess never travels anywhere without a huge entourage of bodyguards, scribes, aides and servants. Even by the standards of princesses the numbers in her entourage are over the top. Unlike the Princess of Mosquitos she tries not to outweigh her welcome or overtax her subjects, with the result that her huge court rarely stays in one place for more then a couple of days.

2- Princess of Army Ants

This princess dresses in armour and rides on campaign with her army, and the vast majority of them greatly respect her for it. When at home, she lives in splendour like the princess that she is, but in camp she beds down with her common soldiers and scorns luxury, wearing no more jewelry then is necessary to identify her.

3- Princess of Wasps

This princess dresses in striking clothes of black and yellow and many a courtier has felt the sting of her tongue. She is well known for her vile temper and her servants try to avoid coming to her notice if they possibly can. Even her fellow princesses avoid her company.

4- Princess of Honeybees

This princess has a sweet dispostion and works hard for her kingdom, but if greatly provoked she will have the person who did it punished. She is very popular with the people who would swarm around her to protect her if she was threatened.

5- Princess of Spiders

This princess has set up a web of spies and agent provocateurs within her royal court and sits at the centre, waiting for somebody to fall foul of them. She then pounces and has the unlucky courtier dragged off to execution. There are many in her court who hate her, but they have no chance of organizing an assassination without being discovered at an early stage.

6- Princess of Scorpians

This princess is a good negotiator, but there is normally a sting in the tail of her treaties which means that they ultimatly are more for her benifit then for anybody else. She is certainly not one to anger or to try and mess about with, and if people break her treaties, she will not hesitate to send her army against them.

7- Princess of Butterflies

This princess thinks not of politics and affairs of state, but only of jewelry and rich dresses, banquets and balls and costly firework displays. This suits her advisors just fine as it means that they can be the real rulers of the country, as long as they let the princess enjoy herself.

8- Princess of Dragonflies

This princess wants to see a dragon, much to the worry of her court, who have pointed out to her that if she did see a dragon, it would most likely see her as a snack and treat her accordingly.

9- Princess of Moths

This princess is fascinated by magic, technology, and *things that glow* in general. Her royal palace is allways well lit despite the expense, and her courtiers know how to please her.

10- Princess of Mosquitos

This princess is heartily hated by her subjects for the heavy taxes that she forces them to pay, leaving them with just enough money to buy food to survive. Not content with making the lives of her lowly subjects a misery, she and her leading courtiers often descend upon a noble and billit themselves in his hall, forcing him to feed and amuse them until his coffers have run dry.

11- Princess of Snails

This princess wears concealed armour as she fears assassins, and she takes a long time before she makes up her mind, thinking of all the possibilities. On the plus side, this means that she normally makes the right choice. On the minus side, her decisions are grindingly slow.

12- Princess of Slugs

This princess is grossly fat and has dry itchy skin, which in turn causes her to use too much lotion, making her skin often slimy to the touch. Her favourite food is lettuce and she tends to be rather pondorus in her movements.

13- Princess of Ants

This princess encourages her subjects to work hard in building work and other things and despises idleness, punishing beggars harshly.However, she is not a hypocrite and works as hard and sometimes even harder then anybody else, so she is popular with most of her subjects.

14- Princess of Worms

This princess is in the middle of getting her subjects to create an underground city, and takes a great interest in it’s construction.

15- Princess of Maggots

This princess is deeply interested in the dead and in necromancy. Publicly, the only sign of this is that she goes to the funerals of every nobleman or noblewoman who dies. Privatly, she wants to create Ironbones and other undead to serve her and wants to one day become a lich-queen rather then face her own death.

16- Princess of Flies

This princess seems to get everywhere, much to the annoyence of the leading barons of the royal court, who are fed up with her as she investigates what they do and drones on and on at them. Many wish that they could slap her down.

17- Princess of Daddy-Longlegs

This princess is well known as the tallest person in her royal court and some people say nasty things about her behind her back. She is an accomplished dancer and can run very fast if she has to. Her bed and bath are much longer to fit her long legs.

18- Princess of Woodlice

This Princess reacts badly to critism, getting her cortiers to *roll over* and close ranks around her. She also fears assassination and openly wears plate armour at Court.

19- Princess of Praying Mantises

This princess has a hareem of unwilling males, and delights in sending them to the executioner’s axe when she has tired of them. One of the males is trying to escape execution by telling her stories.

20- Princess of Fireflies

This princess has a great fear of the Dark, and as a result by night her palace is lit end to end with candles except for the bedrooms of the courtiers. Some fear that all it needs is an accident or an arsonist assassin and the whole palace will burn from end to end. The guards carry buckets of water along with their weapons, to put out any fire that starts.

21- Princess of Stick Insects

This princess suffers from an eating disorder, and at a time anbd place where most of the rich are too fat, is far too thin, to the point where her courtiers are seriously worried that she will starve in the middle of plenty.

22- Princess of Cicadas

This princess likes to talk, incessantly. Which annoys many of her courtiers as royal protocol prevents them from interupting her. It annoys the thetre owners even more, as noone in the thetre can enjoy the preformances when she goes there, nor can they try and shut her up by force as, like all wise despots, she has a number of trusted guards who react to any violence or even threatened violence with savage beatings.

23- Princess of Locusts

This Princess eats excessivly, with the result not only that she is grossly fat, but that her royal court puts a strain on the area. Whilst not quite as hated as the Princess of Mosquitos, she is far from a popular princess as her own people are starting to go hungry because of her excesses.

24- Princess of Cockroaches

This Princess enjoys "slumming it" and even in an age that is far from clean, her royal court is renowned for it’s filth, to the extent that diplomats from other countries hate going there, and she is finding it difficult to find a royal husband as they don’t want to live in her pigsty of a court. She objects to courtiers who keep themselves clean and neat.

25- Princess of Ant-Lions

This princess rules a desert queendom and when other countries try and attack it, she leads them into the heat of the desert and then her army pounces on theirs and destroys it. Other rulers know how hard her queendom is to take by force and since it has little of great value anyway, they tend to leave it in peace.

26- Princess of Bombedier Beetles

This princess has a temper, and carries a wand capable of launching some pretty dangerous and caustic magic, as well as a Vitriolic Key. Those who would try to kidnap or assassinate her, or just annoy her, are in for a tough time.

27- Princess of Backswimmers

This nautical princess is much more at home on her royal flagship then on land, and has a large and capable navy to protect her country’s trade and drive away pirates. She in fact governs from her flagship and rarely goes on dry land at all.

28- Princess of Fleas

This princess has a really irritating personality, to the point where few of the courtiers can bear to be around her, the general public often hear whispered negative rumours about her, and even her own family avoid her except at special occasions when they have to be together because tradition demands it.

29- Princess of Grasshoppers

This princess really likes to travel through her country just for the fun of it, and also enjoys traveling abroad, rarely spending more then a day or two in one place. She is also a bit jumpy and hates being surprised.

30- Princess of Ladybirds

This princess wears robes of red and black and has a special hate for the lazy and those who live unfairly off others, be they outright criminals or landlords whose rents are too high. Her courtiers all have to have proper jobs, and some of them are unhappy about that.

Codex

“And upon the city walls fell a terrible scratching and clanking, and the city folk were afraid, for they knew what awaited on the other side. Iron, and bone.”

- Excerpt translated from “The Army of the Night” - Dagon Heironos, 1432 First Age

Let’s face it - skeletons are weak. Puny little shambles of scraping bones that crack under hammers, snap under swords, and crumble under magic. Yet they are popular with necromancers for the reason that they are so common in crypts and graves, as they are the part of the body that takes the longest time to decompose. 99% of skeletons encountered will be animated by a necromancer rather than intelligent undead, as any lich so old as to consist of naught but bones will not be throwing himself into the paths of swords so readily.

At the end of the age of Founding, the armies of darkness gathered their forces, of men and dark beasts, in what would be a prelude to the Mage Wars that would soon shake the lands. Many among them, drawn to the Dark Gods’ call, gained the talent, or curse of being able to make bones walk. Yet while before them lay hosts of crypts, graves, and battlefields to be raided for bodies, most survived in the form of crumbling skeletons. It was up to the Hands of Darkness to forge these moldering bones into a tool that would strike fear into the hearts of their enemies. It is fair to say that they were quite a success.

An ironbones is a fearsome opponent indeed, almost as frightening to behold as it is to confront. It has the form of a human skeleton, which it was made from, but rather than showing dry bones, it gleams with the dark luster of burnished metal. As it walks, the sharp sound of metal on stone can be heard, as can a faint metallic scraping, as its metal limbs grind against one another.

Ironbones are in essence skeletons that have been animated and covered in a dark alloy of steel that has been magically bonded to the bones. This steel covers their entire bodies, from their skulls to their feet, and is about as thick as a quarter. This plating has also been used for offensive capabilities, turning finger bones into knife-sharp metal blades, and crumbling jaws into dagger-filled maws. Ironbones also are much stronger and faster than the average skeleton, as they were created by the finest and most powerful of the army’s magi.

Following the end of the Mage Wars, many of the Ironbones were either destroyed completely or imprisoned in caverns with no escape. Those remaining dwell mostly in caverns and ruins, protecting the lairs of their old masters, or even retaining a bit of their master’s will, and seeking to hunt down good characters and creatures.

Ironbones are divided into four classes - Swords, Fists, Claws, and Hoods. Pack up on potions before facing these guys!

Full Item Description
A thin sickly yellow-green skeleton key, of an unknown metal, that seems to slightly hot and hisses when in contact with skin. If examined closely, a breach can be found between the head and the handle.
You can actually unscrew the tip of the key to reveal a crusty yellow buildup inside. This is the lifeblood of the Vitriolic Key. History, Creation, and Now…
Eons ago, a demonic essence, known to mortals as Asyd-Tung, was the first to create a Vitriolic Key. It is said that he cursed the name of a Thief-God, drank the venom of a Snake-God, then urinated on the blessed anvil of a Forge-God. When the furious smoke cleared, upon the desecrated alter was the first, and most potent, Vitriolic Key. Now only a legend; others have been crafted in it’s wake.
To create your own Vitriolic Key you must perform a special ritual. The ritual involves openly cursing the name of a Thief-God, drinking venom sacred to the worshipers of a Snake-God, and them urinating onto an anvil that once received the blessings of a Forge-God.
One you have scorned the The Demon-Scarred Gods, Asyd-Tung will grand your urine a corrosive property for a brief time. It will burn like the fires of Hell when you pee, and if you act quickly you can fill a specially prepared holding device (The Vitriolic Key) with your urine. Seal it and let it sit in a dark place for a few days, and when you return to it you will have your very own Vitriolic Key. These days…
The Vitriolic Key is a sign of an Asyd-Tung cultist, considered a blasphemous device by worshipers of the Three Demon-Scarred Gods, and a potent way to melt small objects. Properties
When the crusty yellow buildup inside the key is broken against an object it turns into one of the most, if not the most, corrosive acids known to the mortal world. It is said that the original Vitriolic Key had the power to dissolve divine essence, it is unknown if this is true but it does seem to have the power to melt just about anything else. After each use, the substance takes up to three months to replenish it’s supply of corrosive crust.
Typical uses include destroying locks, torturing prisoners, and melting objects together.
If the key is snapped in half it will melt into a small cloud of burning mist that will dissolve the hands of whoever snapped it and anything else next to it. Asyd-Tung and his Cultists
The original demonic essence behind the creation of the Vitriolic Key has long since been destroyed, but where there are cultists there are those willing to be worshiped by them. There is now a whole council of demons wearing the mask of Asyd-Tung.
Their goals stretch from collecting innocent souls, one of the most precious form of currency in Hell, to flooding the world with acid so they can bathe in the melted bodies of all the mortal creatures that they hate.
The cultists don’t know a damn thing. Most of them are abnormal thieves who love the power of acid, or just your typical crazed followers whose brains have been rotted by too much exposure to corrosive smoke. They do what the demons ask them to do and continue to recruit more followers under the guise of a cult of purification.

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Lol, Cheka, a princess of Praying Mantises, and one of her unwilling consorts is trying to save his life with stories? Funny! It would be great though if you added another line or two to each of them (I know, I want a lot).